Tag Archives for Research Integrity
“Can’t you just say Yes?” Answering Copyright Questions About Fair Use for Faculty Colleagues
More frequently academic librarians are being sought-out by faculty for assistance in answering copyright questions, and many of these questions are about how the fair use exception found in Section 107 of US copyright law can be utilized when making … Continue reading
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell. By Stephen Buranyi In 2011, Claudio Aspesi, a senior investment analyst at Bernstein … Continue reading
Introducing ‘Rethinking Research’
The first in a series of essays on reproducibility of scientific research. How do we know which scientific results to trust? Research published in peer-reviewed academic journals has typically been considered the gold standard, having been subjected to in-depth scrutiny … Continue reading
The performance of Asian S&T journals in international citation indicators
This research explores the performance of Asian S&T journals based on the outcomes of various citation indicators. Indexed by Journal Citation Reports – Science Citation Index Expanded (JCR-SCIE), journals published in China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan between … Continue reading